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  1. Margaret Holden Jones Kaanar, M.D. (1904-2001)

    Women in Science Wednesday: Margaret Holden Jones Kaanar, M.D.

    • Date: October 23, 2013
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: A weekly feature highlighting a groundbreaking woman in science.

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  3. Marie Agnes Hinrichs (b. 1892) Ph.D. and M.D.

    Women in Science Wednesday: Marie Agnes Hinrichs, Ph.D. and M.D.

    • Date: July 31, 2013
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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  5. Doris Mabel Cochran (left), herpetologist, was the first female curator for the Division of Reptiles and Amphibians at the Smithsonian. Doris Holmes Blake (right), was a coleopterist (scholar of beetles) and scientific illustrator. They were friends and colleagues and published over 175 scientific papers between them. 

    Women in Science Wednesday: Doris Mabel Cochran and Doris Holmes Blake

    • Date: September 18, 2013
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Learn how we recently confirmed a field book authored by Cochran with your help!

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    See Here: 8/26/2011

    • Date: August 26, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: *PS: Happy Women's Equality Day!

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  9. In the 1930s, Anthropologist Frederica Annis Lopez de Leo de Laguna (1904-2004) (at left) conducted groundbreaking research on Alaskan Natives with Danish ethnologist Kaj Birket-Smith (1893-1977) (at right).

    Women in Science Wednesday: Frederica Annis Lopez de Leo de Laguna

    • Date: June 11, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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    Documenting a Life of One’s Own

    • Date: March 24, 2022
    • Description: Consider the courage it took for some of the earliest women in science at the Smithsonian to donate their personal papers to the Institution.

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  13. Lucile Mann, dressed in high socks, boots, and slacks, stands next to her husband in British Guiana during an expedition in 1931.

    Finding Lucile Mann: Tropical Fish and Zoological History

    • Date: March 11, 2021
    • Description: While Lucile Mann’s contributions to zoological history have often been reduced to her work raising infant animals, her work with the National Zoo and resulting publications demonstrate that her legacy should be reexamined.

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  15. A man and woman in beige shirts and pants stand in front of four elephants. Four men are riding the elephants. The man in beige is wearing a hat and binoculars around his neck.

    A Crafty Way to Support the Smithsonian

    • Date: May 14, 2019
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: Tracing the history of the Smithsonian Women’s Committee, created in 1966 to raise funds to support the Institution, especially its educational programs.

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  17. International Conference on the Biology of Whales in Virginia in 1971. Credit via NOAA.

    Deconstructing a “Man’s World” One Woman at a Time

    • Date: August 2, 2018
    • Description: Ellen Roney Hughes’ supposition in 1999 was “Well, I think it’s still a man’s world at the Smithsonian.” This may hold some validity due to recent discoveries at the Smithsonian.

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  19. Link Love: 7/26/2019

    • Date: July 26, 2019
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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  21. Color picture of a small, white seal pup on concrete.

    Link Love: 1/26/2017

    • Date: January 27, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Meet the newest (and adorable) member of our National Zoo's family. She sparked an epic cute battle on Twitter! [via WTOP]Maybe not so adorable, a prehistoric "badger otter." [via Smithsonian Magazine]The National Museum of American History's political curators were busy last weekend collecting artifacts from the Inauguration and Women's March. [via Voice of America]Speaking

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    Link Love: 3/11/2011

    • Date: March 11, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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